It’s nearly Spring and I’ve already noticed daffodil bulbs forming! You can see them in the parks, on grass verges and gardens all waiting for the time to bloom!

Below is a sonnet I wrote some years ago, ‘The Windmills - a sonnet’ the inspiration came from the famous poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth, which I love.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation

The Windmills —- A Sonnet

I walked on alone through the milling crowd.
Past all the houses and pubs, shops and grills.
Then spied with shock, high on the hills, a proud
Far away group of war-like white windmills.
Running along the pale blue-grey sky-line
Manifesting the tawdry way they stray.
Uniform, their tall, smooth, unapt outline
Reaching out to a far distant highway.
The grass soft beside their solid pathway
Its timeless green-peace colour contradicts
These new wind-fed humming towers so fey.
But, I realized, how my needs conflict

And stared, knowing I should give some support

For all the cheap electricity they brought.

Susan Holmes  25.04.96